Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
And fathers, . . . listen to [your returned missionary sons], and connect with them in regular, focused conversation. Talk with them… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Because everybody lies. It's part of living in society. Don't get me wrong-I think it's necessary. The last thing anyone wants is… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally. 'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
I like being around people who are good conversationalists. When there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
For communication to have meaning it must have a life. It must transcend "you and me" and become "us." If I truly… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
“No matter the pain, I could take it, because it wouldn’t last very long. Not more than an hour, anyway. And Brock… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks.… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“Talking to himself was, depressingly, the only way to achieve an intelligent and engaging conversation these days. Carnac tried to ration himself,… — Manna Francis Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation,… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle.… — Damian Thompson Copy Share Image
This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Often, as an interviewer, particularly when you're talking to highly visible people, celebrities, and it's known that negative things have happened, they… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
Every performance is different. There are so many factors involved... the people I've met that day, the weather, the city I'm in,… — Dia Frampton Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based… — Eric Johnston Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The least you could do is offer a little conversation.” Beckett dodged a pothole, keeping his eyes on the road. “You want… — Jenny B. Jones Copy Share Image
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess… — Hod Lipson Copy Share Image
This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything --… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Like Frankenweenie is a story about a boy and his dog, Big Fish is the story of a father and his son,… — John August Copy Share Image
I did a film called 'Floating' early on that had a scene which was similar to a real-life situation I was in… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
It's fun to just get out there and have a nice conversation when I'm running. To be honest, when I do longer… — Flea Copy Share Image
Rather than relying on the false fantasies of Democratic politicians who promote inefficient and environmentally detrimental alternative energy sources like wind and… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country,… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image